Kristina Fuchs & Jeroen van Vliet
Life, you are beautiful
Kristina Fuchs – voice
Jeroen van Vliet- Piano
Twee uitzonderlijke muzikale stemmen komen samen in een betoverend duo: Kristina Fuchs en Jeroen van Vliet. Zij, een vocalist met een caleidoscopische stem die moeiteloos schakelt tussen dromerig en speels, fluisterend en krachtig. Hij, een pianist en componist met een ongeëvenaarde lyriek en een kristalhelder geluid.
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orè
matter antimatter
Jose Soares – alt sax
Miguel Petrucelli – Guitar
Pedro Ivo Ferreira – double bass
Onno Govaert – drums
“Matter Antimatter” is Orè’s third album, reflecting the group’s ongoing search for open and adventurous music. The compositions are intrinsically related to improvisation, sometimes serving as a framework, other times emerging from it. Pieces like “Free Wheel” and “Ode” are fully improvised, while others such as “Uncertainty Principle” and “Pastor” are based on written material.
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OGUZ BÜYÜKBERBER
Continuity
Oğuz Büyükberber – clarinet
Oğuz Büyükberber is an Amsterdam based performer/composer who’s specialised in clarinets, modular synthesizers and visuals. His style merges contemporary music, jazz and influences from his Turkish background.
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Büyükberber
Asplund
Ricks
Absurd, Bulkier Cyberpunks
Oğuz Büyükberber – clarinet, modular synthesizers
Christian Asplund – viola, piano, keyboards
Steven Ricks – trombone, electronics
A pianist, two keyboardists, two synthesizer nerds, three composers, a violist, a trombone player and a clarinetist were locked up in a black box, and they came out as a trio.
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THE SELFKICKERS
The Selfkickers
Joske Koning – voice
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Joske Koning delivers a selection of the wild and transcendental poetry of Johnny “the Selfkicker” van Doorn, joined by two exceptional improvisers: drummer Marcos Baggiani and guitarist Jasper Stadhouders.
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Jerboah
Wake up!
Sarah Jeffery – voice, recorder
Dodo Kis – Recorder, voice, ewi
Guillermo Celano – Guitar
Marcos Baggiani- Drums, Voice
Genre-bending – alt-rock – impro – post-popJerboah is as adventurous as it is addictive. With influences from free jazz, 90s pop to alternative rock, these four musical explorers weave political consciousness with a hefty dose of humour into their songwriting.
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Friso van Wijck’s Candy Container
Friso van Wijck’s Candy Container
Friso van Wijck – compositions, drums, gongs, bells etc Jasper van Damme – alto saxophone, flute
Joao Driessen – tenor saxophone, flute, ewi
Jorn ten Hoopen – guitar
Frank Jonas – guitar
Bas Kloosterman – bass
Influenced by the serialism and aleatoricism of Boulez and Stockhausen, jazz, metal, open improvisation, and writers/poets such as James Joyce and e.e. cummings, Friso van Wijck’s Candy Container brings together a group of energetic virtuosos, whose abilities to switch between contrasting avant-gardistic style elements lend this music a hyper- expressionistic frenzy, imbued with high-octane interaction.
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Su Nichel
Deeds of a rascal
Cosimo Gentili – alto/soprano saxophone
Paul Van de Calseijde – tenor saxophone
Miran Noh – piano
Dean Montanaro – electric bass
Andrea Carta – drums
The band draws on various influences to do so, from the music of the Baka people of the Congo to the revolutionist anthems of the Catalan singer-songwriter Jaume Sisa, to modern and contemporary jazz influences. Born into a chaotic, unpredictable world, Deeds of a Rascal is not only a nostalgic ode to the sweet freedoms of youth, but also a reminder not to forsake the exhilaration of going against the grain, and to presently celebrate even our most insignificant daily victories.
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Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev – trumpet
Andrius Derevi – tenor and soprano saxophone
Eran HarEven – guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass
Onno Govaert – drums
A mobius strip is a figurative representation of an infinite loop. Just like infinity represents both the feeling of being stuck in repetition, as well as the potential for growth and change, this deeply personal album brings together compositions about life’s challenges and a glimmer of hope in overcoming them.
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guillermo celano
trio
Labyrinth
Guillermo Celano – guitar
Omer Govreen – double bass
Steve Altenberg – drums.
The recording process was both challenging and inspiring, with a focus on improvisation and spontaneity. The trio opted for an intimate studio setting where they played close together, enhancing their chemistry and dynamics. The tracks were mostly recorded in one take, without extensive post-production, giving the album a raw and direct energy.
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SPINIFEX
UNDRILLING THE HOLE
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
Bart Maris – trumpet
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums
On the ninth Spinifex album, the music combines the tight and the free, the voluminous and the ingenious, and emphasises the band’s status as an incomparable juggernaut on the European jazz scene.
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Bagg*fish+V.C.
El Tren
Michael Fischer – tenor saxophone, feedback_saxophone, vocals
Vinicius Cajado – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums & percussion, kazoo
“…The two were determined to redefine the sonic options of such a duo… Their music is wrapped in an experimental, risk-taking envelope, mischievous, driving rhythms, and poetic resonance. …Spiritual, inventive, and flowing with nervous energy…no doubt that bAgg*fisH created their own, highly idiosyncratic sound universe. Fischer has a charismatic commanding tone on the sax and the driving, poly-rhythmic pulse of Baggiani keeps pushing him to the edge.”
Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz
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Lothar Ohlmeier Tobias Klein
Left side right
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
Tobias Klein – bass clarinet, alto saxophone
From the nineties onward, Lothar Ohlmeier and Tobias Klein have collaborated in numerous bands and projects. It wasn’t until the spring of 2023 that they embarked on recording as a duo. This album captures their profoundly personal and intuitive exploration of this musical format, presenting five improvisations recorded in a single afternoon, each left entirely unedited. “… the interaction and communication is perfect… an outstanding duo disc, a musical conversation that fascinates.” (Jan Granlie, saltpeanuts.com)
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Salvoandrea lucifora quartet
drifters
Marta Warelis – piano,
Omer Govreen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Salvoandrea Lucifora – trombone
Pushing the boundaries of traditional acoustic jazz instrumentation, the Drifting quartet emboldens their sonic expedition by delving into uncharted realms of sound organization and an expansive timbral palette. Harnessing the power of their collective virtuosity, the quartet navigates the sonic landscape, traversing a wide spectrum of tonalities and textures.
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Steven Kamperman
Maison Moderne
Steven Kamperman – b-flat & alto clarinet, percussion, compositions
Oene van Geel – viola, percussion
Paul Jarret – electric guitar
Albert van Veenendaal – piano, bass guitar
Maison Moderne plays the compositions of clarinetist Steven Kamperman, generally praised for his adventurous and warm-blooded writing and playing. It incorporates some of the Netherlands’ and France’s finest jazz improvisers. Kamperman’s clarinet is accompanied by the sparkling viola of Oene van Geel, the rich sound world of the French guitarist Paul Jarret and the creative interventions that Albert van Veenendaal brings in with his (at times prepared) piano.
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Frans Vermeerssen
Trio
The trail
Frans Vermeerssen – tenor sax
Dion Nijland – double bass
Thomas Jaspers – drums
In Vermeerssen’s opinion the trio line up is the smallest complete band in jazz music. It has rhythm, melody and counterpoint. A trio offers great opportunities to improvise in a very open way. Much of his favourite music is played bythe trio’s of Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Ab Baars, Arthur Blythe and of course “Air” with Henry Threadgill. After a long career in playing jazz Vermeerssen finally felt up to the challenge. In bass player Dion Nijland (who also participated in Vermeerssen’s quartet “Talking Cows”) and Thomas Jaspers on drums he has found the perfect match for his music.
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DEON
Soft steel
Dion Nijland – double bass
Steven Kamperman – clarinets
Ad Colen – saxophones
Ruben Drenth – trumpet
Mees Siderius – drums and vibraphone
The album SOFT STEEL contains 12 compositions by Dion Nijland that combine the power, clarity and objectivity of musical structures with the emotional expression of the performers . Notes on paper slowly vanished and transformed into a lively and human sound. The structured compositions are shaped by the musicians, always potentially moving into another direction. An impression of a lifelong relationship with music and its different shapes.
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Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev – trumpet
Andrius Derevi – tenor and soprano saxophone
Eran HarEven – guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass
Onno Govaert – drums
A mobius strip is a figurative representation of an infinite loop. Just like infinity represents both the feeling of being stuck in repetition, as well as the potential for growth and change, this deeply personal album brings together compositions about life’s challenges and a glimmer of hope in overcoming them.
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Spinifex
Spinifex sings
Priya Purushothaman – voice
Björk Níelsdóttir – voice
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
Bart Maris – trumpet
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – electric guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums
A beautiful, limited edition (200 copies) DOUBLE-VINYL, playing time 74 minutes.
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SPINIFEX
Spinifex sings
Priya Purushothaman – voice
Björk Níelsdóttir – voice
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
Bart Maris – trumpet
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums
Spinifex shows the back of its tongue with Spinifex Sings, an album that features extraordinary vocalists Priya Purushothaman from Mumbai and Björk Níelsdóttir from Iceland. Spinifex Sings combines free improv, polyrhythmic punk-rock and rigorously composed structures with contemporary and ancient Tamil, Kashmiri and Icelandic poetry.
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Fie schouten
Figures
Fie Schouten – (contra)bass clarinet
Jelte Althuis – contrabas clarinet
Tobias Klein – contrabas clarinet
Henny Heikens – organ
Berend Eijkhout – bariton
Goska Isphording – harpsichord
Eva van de Poll – violoncello
Keiko Shichijo – piano
Chamber music for low clarinets, deeply humming, lyrical, grooving. Fie Schouten, clarinettist with a love for low instruments and praised for her warm lyrical sound, has made a CD in which she is flanked by other low clarinets, an organ, a singer, a harpsichord and cello and piano. Like a chameleon, she colours each piece differently because of the character of her fellow players and their different instruments.
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oguz Buyukberber / Tobias Klein
Live at de roze tanker
Oguz Büyükberber – bass clarinet
Tobias Klein – bass clarinet
The music was recorded in June 2021 at the small informal venue De Roze Tanker in Amsterdam. The cd features the Büyükberber/Klein set at the Tanker in its entirety, from the first note to the last: two bass clarinets and nothing else.
“And my oh my, what a performance it is. Klein and Büyükberber have been playing as a duo for more than sixteen years, and it shows … This is a pleasure to listen to… it all shows in their uplifting performance. Get this release if you want to hear what’s possible on a bass clarinet…” (Vital Weekly)
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The Zebra Street Band
Shirwku
Alistair Payne – trumpet
Salvoandrea Lucifora – trombone, tuba, composition
Andrius Dereviancenko – tenor saxophone
John Dikeman – baritone saxophone
Fabio Galeazzi – drums and percussion
Onno Govaert – drums and percussion
The Zebra Street Band is an Amsterdam based brass band initiated by trombonist Salvoandrea Lucifora in 2017. The band creates highly energetic music that is both artistic and infectiously danceable. Myriad styles melt together into a unique and original repertoire. Moments of groove alternating with floating textures and collective improvisations.
Every member of the band is a strong soloist and improviser and this allows the music to come out fresh and new with each performance. No piece is played the same way twice.
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Tobias Klein
Vertical transport
Keiko Shichijo – piano
Pauline Post – piano
Taavi Kerikmäe – piano
3 pieces for piano solo, composed by Tobias Klein. Recorded by Micha de Kanter at Bimhuis, Amsterdam on April 19, 2021; except track 3 recorded by Margo Kõlar at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn on September 14, 2021.
Mixed by Micha de Kanter, except track 3 mixed by Margo Kõlar.
All tracks mastered by Micha de Kanter.
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Cocktail party attack
anthem of joy
Tristan Renfrow – drums
Asger Thomsen – electric bass
Andrius Dereviancenko – saxophone/fx
Cocktail Party Attack is a group of musicians based in Amsterdam. Lead by saxophonist Andrius Dereviancenko and consisting of Asger Thomsen on bass and Tristan Renfrow on drums, the group pulls from their wide variety of musical backgrounds to come together with one cohesive sound. The trio melds genres with ease, producing work that sounds both free and highly regimented at the same time. Their music is as fervent and intense as it is charming, often utilizing surprising shifts in tempo or style to keep the listener engaged throughout.
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Fie Schouten
Nut
Fie Schouten – (contra)bass clarinet
Jelte Althuis – bass clarinet
Tatiana Koleva – vibraphone
Eva van de Poll – violoncello
Bart de Vrees – percussion
Marko Kassl – accordion
Chamber music for (contra)bass clarinet. Three of the compositions were commissioned by the 4th Basklarinet Festijn, which celebrated the combination of bass clarinet and percussion. At the heart of the CD is Gérard Grisey’s contrabass clarinet solo. This piece with two movements is named after the Egyptian gods Anubis (god of death) and Nut (sky goddess).
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spinifex
Spinifex Beats The Plague
Bart Maris – trumpet
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums
A mobius strip is a figurative representation of an infinite loop. Just like infinity represents both the feeling of being stuck in repetition, as well as the potential for growth and change, this deeply personal album brings together compositions about life’s challenges and a glimmer of hope in overcoming them.
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bugpowder
cage tennis
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Jeroen Kimman – electric guitar, bass guitar
Jasper Stadhouders – bass guitar, electric guitar
Tristan Renfrow – drums
The Amsterdam-based quartet Bugpowder performs rarely played pieces by Ornette Coleman from the 70s and 80s. The compositions originally appeared on groundbreaking albums such as Science Fiction, Of Human Feelings, Crisis, In All Languages, and on the soundtrack to David Cronenberg’s movie Naked Lunch.
Bugpowder interprets these timeless gems from a contemporary perspective.
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cloudfish
but is it art?
Jasper le Clercq – violin, effects
Hartog Eysman – vocals
Cloudfish is an exceptional duo of voice and violin. A unique blend of songs and improvisation, they aim for atmosphere and emotion. Eysman and Le Clercq have developed a sixth sense for interplay. They are constantly reacting to each other. Their music evolves like a kaleidoscope. The songs are never once played in the same way. Every version is a fresh exploration of the material. Where the adventure takes them is a surprise, a reinterpretation, a remix.
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Dion Nijland
I play me
Dion Nijland – double bass
I PLAY ME is a project for solo double bass conceptualized and performed by Dion Nijland. In 19 mainly improvised and a few composed pieces, he shows what musical self exploration can bring. As a double bass player, participating in many Dutch jazz and improvising groups, musical interaction has always been the key element in Dion’s musical behaviour. But how would a recording sound when interaction takes place with no one else but…himself? Over the years Dion gathered many ideas that he could use when he would be ‘on his own’. Finally, he went into the studio and recorded 19 solo pieces. ‘When I play there is sound,
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37Fern
37Fern
Claron McFadden – voice
Kristina Fuchs – voice
Oğuz Büyükberber – clarinet, bass clarinet
Tobias Klein – bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
As the main driving force behind 37Fern, Oğuz Büyükberber and Tobias Klein explore the palimpsest of Anatolian music in a modern jazz language. The virtuosity and versatility that Claron McFadden and Kristina Fuchs bring to the music enables the ensemble to blur the lines between strictly composed and improvised, contemporary and traditional. Freedom and imagination prompt the ambitions for this unique quartet. Originals and unique arrangements of folk music balance their repertoire. 37Fern had its debut at Basklarinet Festijn in 2018.
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guillermo celano quartet
fiction and reality
Folkert Oosterbeek – Piano
Guillermo Celano – guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Flin van Hemmen– drums
This album, as the title suggests, moves between two worlds: fiction and reality, day and night, concrete vs abstraction. Changing and overlapping one to another the music moves forward taking different forms, from a tonal passage to a wild free fall group solo. This postmodern album moves across borders and music styles making home in a multicultural society.
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Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev Mobius
Dennis Sekretarev – trumpet
Andrius Derevi – tenor and soprano saxophone
Eran HarEven – guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass
Onno Govaert – drums
A mobius strip is a figurative representation of an infinite loop. Just like infinity represents both the feeling of being stuck in repetition, as well as the potential for growth and change, this deeply personal album brings together compositions about life’s challenges and a glimmer of hope in overcoming them.
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bite the gnatze
Good bike Fair wheel
Paul pallesen – guitar, banjo
Meinrad Kneer – double bass
Joost Buis trombone – lapsteelguitar
Frank van Bommel – piano, celesta, harmonium
Alan Purves drums – percussion
Steven Kamperman – soprano saxophone, alto clarinet
Michiel Duijves – bass clarinet, clarinet
The compositions on the album are a reflection on what music composer Paul Pallesen inspired. Jazz, musicians as Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy as well as the ICP orchestra from Amsterdam, popmusic from the sixties and seventies , traditional folkmusic and contemporary classical music.
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Native Speaker
Native Speaker
Natalio Sued – tenor saxophone
Matt Adomeit – double bass
Tristan Renfrow – drums
Guillermo Celano – electric guitar
Since early 2015, Native Speaker has established an eccentric group sensibility and sound that reevaluates the jazz sax-bass-drums formation. Their music presents a bold irreverence for the frontiers separating genres and for the boundaries between predetermination and improvisation. This creates an environment in which trust, spontaneity, and sensitivity take precedence. On their eponymous debut album melody-centric compositions are ruthlessly deconstructed through subversive variation and improvisation.
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Ewo
Ewo tv
Jurriaan Berger – acoustic and electric piano, electronics, vocals
Felix Hildenbrand – acoustic and electric bass, vocals
Achim Heine – drums, glockenspiel, percussion, vocals
In the 50s and 60s, jazz musicians played ‘standards’, famous broadway and film tunes from the era they grew up in. But what is a standard for us, growing up in the 80s and 90s, what music is in our DNA? The answer for earswideopen: TV theme songs, of course! So here it is: EwoTV. Some of your favourite American and Dutch TV theme songs. Improved beyond repair. Plus the occasional gem: a 90s song called Film that was made for no film in particular, and the gorgeous 80s hit The Riddle.
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spinifex
SOUFIFEX
Bart Maris – trumpet
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums
Deeply rooted in their idiosyncratic approach, combining cutting-edge composed structures with free improvisation, the Spinifex musicians dive into the magic of ritually repeated patterns and concentration on the beat.
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spinifex
Amphibian ardour
Bart Maris – trumpet
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone
John Dikeman – tenor saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Gonçalo Almeida – bass guitar
Philipp Moser – drums Amphibian ardour
Amphibian Ardour is the fifth Spinifex studio CD, and it is the first with American tenor saxophonist John Dikeman with whom Spinifex started collaborating during a tour in the far east of Siberia in 2015. The album also features Flemish master trumpeter Bart Maris, who had already been part of the 10-piece band Spinifex Maximus in 2015. Amphibian Ardour includes compositions by alto saxophonist Tobias Klein, bassist Gonçalo Almeida, music from Iranian and Pakistani Sufi traditions, as well as an arrangement of a Thillana from Karnatic music.
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Boi Akih
Liquid songs
Monica Akihary : vocals
Niels Brouwer : nylon string acoustic guitar, prepared acoustic guitar, harp guitar
Ryoko Imai : marimba, reyong & percussion
Tobias Klein : bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
Liquid Songs, the newest and 7th album from Boi Akih, is inspired by a Moluccan tradition in which old stories that are adapted to the present day are called liquid stories. This process forms a guide for the musical as well as the narrative elements that converge in Liquid Songs.
The music has an open character, improvisation and composed material merging seamlessly. It’s music with an elastic pulse, where rhythm is implied rather than dictated; music that evolves its own entity during the performance. Brouwer composed ‘liquid’ core melodies, Akihary wrote nine very personal texts, which serve as anchor points for the compositions. The four musicians of this totally original line-up bring a rich diversity of temperaments, colourings and personal experiences to bear in unfolding the music.
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Kristina Fuchs Jeroen van Vliet Mete Erker
Linden
Kristina Fuchs voice, hang
Jeroen van Vliet piano, electronics
Mete Erker saxophones, clarinets
Old songs, new music. Soulful free improvised versions of old folk songs, tales of love, passion, crime and abandonment. Songs that have been sung for centuries and then were almost forgotten. World music from the Netherlands, flat-land music rediscovered by a singer from mountainous Switzerland. Newly bottled with heart, humor and spices and aged in the cellar of a virtuoso, head-strong and weather-proof jazz trio featuring voice, piano, reeds and many additional instruments like the Hang or electronics.
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Morgan Freeman
Blessed Virgin Mary’s Face-to-Face Encounter with the Divine Bullshit
Andrius Dereviancenko tenor saxophone
Dennis Sekretarev trumpet
Matt Adomeit double bass
Tristan Renfrow drums, guitar, samples
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Oğuz Büyükberber and Simon Nabatov
Wobbly Strata
Oğuz Büyükberber- Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, Simon Nabatov- Piano
In their first duo collaboration, Turkish born clarinetist Oğuz Büyükberber, from the Amsterdam modern music scene, and master pianist Simon Nabatov go for an amalgam of high energy improvisation and structure, resulting in an intensely focused interplay of colors, ideas and instrumental virtuosity.
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Dumitrio
proverbe
George Dumitriu –viola, violin, guitar
Mattia Magatelli – contrabass, electric bass
Kristijan Krajnčan – cello, drums
Having met in the North of the Netherlands, the three European musicians immediately identified an intuitive connection, and gathered forces to explore a vast musical territory sketched by George’s instrumental and compositional mastery, Magatelli’s lyrical music, and Krajnčan’ polyrhythms and complex structures . The foundation is built on jazz, while the architecture is gloriously defined by classical, post-rock, minimal, electro, and folklore music. Spontaneous improvisations and extreme dynamics are some of their strongest features, nuanced by subtle expression of violin, viola, and violoncello. Their first album “Future Nostalgia” was released in 2013 and received international praise for its unique approach and musicality. “DUMItRIO’s improvisations are some of the most interesting pieces written / improvised / sketched / hummed we’ve heard lately, because they prove that three musicians can be very convincing on several levels” – Jazz De’a Dreptu’ “Moments of maximum intensity liberate powerful emotions within flowing compositions and improvisations” – Radu Ciobanu
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AVA
music from an imaginary land
Giuseppe Doronzo (IT) – baritone sax
Esat Ekincioglu (TR) – double bass
Pouriya Jaberi (IR) – daf, jivar
In search of a sound bridging their homelands of Italy, Turkey and Iran, AVA takes inspiration from the ancient as well as the current Mediterranean cultures, blending the folk musics lore with an avant-garde flair.
The multinational trio presents a broad spectrum of textures in their compositions, offering a new approach to instrumental folk music.
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celano/Baggiani group
LEs Indignés
Ellery Eskelin- tenor sax
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
This CD represents a very special chapter in the history of the C.B.G.
In 2011, the Celano/Baggiani group (joined by Michael Moore on reeds and Sven Schuster on double bass) went on tour in collaboration with duo Sylvie Courvoisier/Ellery Eskelin, on piano and tenor sax respectively.
During that period, Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani invited Ellery Eskelin and double bassists Clemens van der Feen to enter the studio and make this recording.
This CD was planned to come out in 2012-13, a time when we were busy working on other projects and recordings. We decided to wait for the right moment to release this material.
This year, the band celebrates 10 years of working together and making music, and we feel the moment has come to bring out this hidden gem.
We hope you enjoy it.
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celano/Baggiani group
Erasing borders
Joachim Badenhorst – tenor sax and clarinet
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
“Guitarist Celano is the winner of the North sea jazz composition assignment this year…
His ten year old band with drummer Marcos Baggiani recently changed the lineup… New are bassist Clemens van der Feen and Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst and It appears to be a golden combination.
Celano writes tight. In most of the pieces there is a strange bridge, break, melodic quirk, rhythmic delay or acceleration, making his band members and the audience pay full attention to the music.
The music hosts an incredible freedom in the compositions, leaving enough space for the band members to express their idiosyncratic and intriguing ways of making music. The tension keeps you through out the concert at the edge of your seat…”” CD presentation at Lantaren Venster – Rotterdam. Tim Sprangers – de Volkskrant – 12 july 2013″
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celano/Baggiani group
Alienology
Michael Moore -alto sax and clarinet
Gorka Benitez – Tenor sax and fluit
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
ILead by guitarist Guillermo Celano and drummer Marcos Baggiani the C.B.G has released 3 CD’s with Michael Moore on alto and clarinet and Sven Schuster on double bass. The two latest of these releases feature also Gorka Benitez (ES) on tenor sax and flute.
n search of a sound bridging their homelands of Italy, Turkey and Iran, AVA takes inspiration from the ancient as well as the current Mediterranean cultures, blending the folk musics lore with an avant-garde flair.
5 stars!
Ken Vos – Jazzism, may/june 2011
...all the pieces create intensely melodic, unobvious structures for
improvisation. A.Hamilton – The wire – United Kingdom, October 2011
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NATIVE ALIENS ENSEMBLE
native aliens ensemble
Renato Ferreira all compositions, tenor and baritone sax
Yedo Gibson soprano sax
Laura Polence voice
George Dumitriu guitar and viola
Miguel Petruccelli guitar and bass guitar
JanWillem van der Ham bassoon and alto sax
Gábor Hartyáni cello
Onno Govaert drums and pandeiroAndrius Derevi – tenor and soprano saxophone
Eran HarEven – guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass
Onno Govaert – drums
Native Aliens Ensemble is a group of 8 musicians dedicated to playing composed music using elements of Brazilian popular music combined with free improvisation. The group was created by Renato Ferreira (Br), composer and multi-instrumentalist. He studied contemporary composition at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague and for this project he puts in action a mix of influences of Brazilian, European and Dutch sources: from Louis Andriessen to Alban Berg, passing through Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti. All those influences blend together with Amsterdam’s effervescent scene of improvised music to create a unique and explosive musical group. You can expect lots of Brazilian rhythms such as “maracatu”, “frevo”, “baião” and “catira”. On top of this are the powerful improvisations of this group’s musicians, who are all active improvisers in town.
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celano/Baggiani group
Nothing changes
Michael Moore -alto sax and clarinet
Gorka Benitez – Tenor sax and fluit
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Lead by guitarist Guillermo Celano and drummer Marcos Baggiani the C.B.G has released 3 CD’s with Michael Moore on alto and clarinet and Sven Schuster on double bass. The two latest of these releases feature also Gorka Benitez (ES) on tenor sax and flute.
Together with these musicians and some special guests – such as Hugues Mayot (F), Ellery Eskelin and Rodrigo Dominguez (AR) on tenor sax, Sylvie Courvoisier (A) on piano, Jasper Stadhouders (NL), Tomás Merlo (S), Paco Weth (S) and Hernán Merlo (AR) on bass – They have extensively toured in The Netherlands, Argentina, Spain, UK, Belgium, Germany and France.
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Lily’s déjà vu
music from another ass
Ingrid Laubrock – tenor sax
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Jasper Stadhouders – bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
“The group plays with all the codes of modernity bypassing its cumbersome signifiers and they enjoy a freedom of tone that one can nothing but praise: Their mix of rock/impro/jazz pleased the ears because of its substantial content and because they never loose the essence of the matter”
ImproJazz (France) – David Cristol – Sept 2014
This international quartet brings about a world of images and colors inside the listener’s head.
The composed material steers clear of every imaginable musical cliché, and has an internal cohesion determined by dream logic. The improvisations that take off from here are always surprising, playful, inspired and witty.
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bAgg*fisH
bAgg*fisH
Michael Fischer – tenor sax & feedback
Marc Baggiani – drums
“…The two were determined to redefine the sonic options of such a duo… Their music is wrapped in an experimental, risk-taking envelope, mischievous, driving rhythms, and poetic resonance. …Spiritual, inventive, and flowing with nervous energy…no doubt that bAgg*fisH created their own, highly idiosyncratic sound universe.
Fischer has a charismatic commanding tone on the sax and the driving, poly-rhythmic pulse of Baggiani keeps pushing him to the edge.” Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz
“Fischer’s feedback sax sounds more like feedback electric guitar than anything you’d hear from John Butcher … And Baggiani shows he’s in the same class, constantly producing small crispy contact sounds out of tautly measured free-beats. … I love it now.” Tim Owen, Dalston Sound
TT559-054
celano/Baggiani group
Nothing changes
Michael Moore -alto sax and clarinet
Gorka Benitez – Tenor sax and fluit
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Lead by guitarist Guillermo Celano and drummer Marcos Baggiani the C.B.G has released 3 CD’s with Michael Moore on alto and clarinet and Sven Schuster on double bass. The two latest of these releases feature also Gorka Benitez (ES) on tenor sax and flute.
Together with these musicians and some special guests – such as Hugues Mayot (F), Ellery Eskelin and Rodrigo Dominguez (AR) on tenor sax, Sylvie Courvoisier (A) on piano, Jasper Stadhouders (NL), Tomás Merlo (S), Paco Weth (S) and Hernán Merlo (AR) on bass – They have extensively toured in The Netherlands, Argentina, Spain, UK, Belgium, Germany and France.
TT559-040
Lily’s déjà vu
music from another ass
Ingrid Laubrock – tenor sax
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Jasper Stadhouders – bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
“The group plays with all the codes of modernity bypassing its cumbersome signifiers and they enjoy a freedom of tone that one can nothing but praise: Their mix of rock/impro/jazz pleased the ears because of its substantial content and because they never loose the essence of the matter”
ImproJazz (France) – David Cristol – Sept 2014
This international quartet brings about a world of images and colors inside the listener’s head.
The composed material steers clear of every imaginable musical cliché, and has an internal cohesion determined by dream logic. The improvisations that take off from here are always surprising, playful, inspired and witty.
TT559-053
NATIVE ALIENS ENSEMBLE
native aliens ensemble
Renato Ferreira all compositions, tenor and baritone sax
Yedo Gibson soprano sax
Laura Polence voice
George Dumitriu guitar and viola
Miguel Petruccelli guitar and bass guitar
JanWillem van der Ham bassoon and alto sax
Gábor Hartyáni cello
Onno Govaert drums and pandeiroAndrius Derevi – tenor and soprano saxophone
Eran HarEven – guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass
Onno Govaert – drums
Native Aliens Ensemble is a group of 8 musicians dedicated to playing composed music using elements of Brazilian popular music combined with free improvisation. The group was created by Renato Ferreira (Br), composer and multi-instrumentalist. He studied contemporary composition at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague and for this project he puts in action a mix of influences of Brazilian, European and Dutch sources: from Louis Andriessen to Alban Berg, passing through Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti. All those influences blend together with Amsterdam’s effervescent scene of improvised music to create a unique and explosive musical group. You can expect lots of Brazilian rhythms such as “maracatu”, “frevo”, “baião” and “catira”. On top of this are the powerful improvisations of this group’s musicians, who are all active improvisers in town.
TT559-074
celano/Baggiani group
Nothing changes
Michael Moore -alto sax and clarinet
Gorka Benitez – Tenor sax and fluit
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Clemens van der Feen – double bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
Lead by guitarist Guillermo Celano and drummer Marcos Baggiani the C.B.G has released 3 CD’s with Michael Moore on alto and clarinet and Sven Schuster on double bass. The two latest of these releases feature also Gorka Benitez (ES) on tenor sax and flute.
Together with these musicians and some special guests – such as Hugues Mayot (F), Ellery Eskelin and Rodrigo Dominguez (AR) on tenor sax, Sylvie Courvoisier (A) on piano, Jasper Stadhouders (NL), Tomás Merlo (S), Paco Weth (S) and Hernán Merlo (AR) on bass – They have extensively toured in The Netherlands, Argentina, Spain, UK, Belgium, Germany and France.
TT559-040
Lily’s déjà vu
music from another ass
Ingrid Laubrock – tenor sax
Guillermo Celano- guitar
Jasper Stadhouders – bass
Marcos Baggiani – drums
“The group plays with all the codes of modernity bypassing its cumbersome signifiers and they enjoy a freedom of tone that one can nothing but praise: Their mix of rock/impro/jazz pleased the ears because of its substantial content and because they never loose the essence of the matter”
ImproJazz (France) – David Cristol – Sept 2014
This international quartet brings about a world of images and colors inside the listener’s head.
The composed material steers clear of every imaginable musical cliché, and has an internal cohesion determined by dream logic. The improvisations that take off from here are always surprising, playful, inspired and witty.
TT559-053
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